Twin Lights of Navesink
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Highlands, New Jersey
Built: 1862
Automated: 1949
Decommissioned: 1952
These "twin" brownstone light towers are 64 feet high and 320 feet apart. They are connected by an 18 room brownstone keeper's and crew dwelling. The north tower is octagonal and the south tower is square and their focal planes are 246 feet above sea level. The north tower was taken out of service in 1898, but was kept ready as an emergency light. The current lights replaced the original twin towers which were established in 1828 to mark the western entrance to New York Harbor. The first Fresnel lenses to be used in this country were mounted on those original towers in 1840. Currently the north tower is open to the public and the attached dwelling houses one of the best lighthouse museums we've seen.
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